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by hudibras 9y ago
But it's also saying that "the 79,000 tons was four to 16 times larger than has been previously estimated for the patch."
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by hudibras 9y ago
This isn't the title of the article, and the change is not only inaccurate (46% is not 'mostly') but it downplays the significance of the garbage patch.
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Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley(gq.com)
2 points by hudibras 9y ago|0 comments
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by hudibras 9y ago
Kindles are great, too.
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by hudibras 9y ago
I did a sea tour in engineering on an aircraft carrier, and we would get in the routine of standing watch, eat, go work on paperwork in the office, sleep, work out, eat, stand watch, repeat for days and days on end. Not in a bad way, I didn
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by hudibras 9y ago
> Statistics: (for Bayesian) Statistical Rethinking - A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan - McElreath + online course Because it's a relative newcomer to the statistics scene, McElreath's book isn't as well known
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by hudibras 9y ago
This series, by Paul Soares, is the canonical Minecraft how-to. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7326EF82122776A9
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by hudibras 9y ago
>Only on US earned income. For Japan at least, this is incorrect. If you are an American living in Japan, both countries will tax your unearned income[0], regardless of the source. [0]Social Security and other government pensions being t
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by hudibras 9y ago
Every six months, the same damn thinkpieces are written.
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by hudibras 9y ago
On the one hand, the analog watch they show to compare with the Apple Watch is an Omega Speedmaster, the first watch on the moon. Shows that you can do great things with just gears and springs. On the other hand, it does cost $3,000...
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by hudibras 9y ago
This was a 22-year-old guy who made $50 profit selling a modified Wii to an undercover cop, by the way.
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by hudibras 9y ago
Coincidentally, from a couple days ago, here's an English language interview with the owner of a passive house in Karuizawa. There are also some general Japan-passive-house-related links in the article. https://www.rethinkto
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Using the Old Bean (1985)(si.com)
6 points by hudibras 9y ago|1 comments
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by hudibras 9y ago
It's for security to check for sex and drug use.
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After Building New AU Headquarters, China Spies on Addis Ababa Facility(moroccoworldnews.com)
4 points by hudibras 9y ago|0 comments
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by hudibras 9y ago
And to go one level deeper, there's the famous Biz Markie cover of "Bennie and the Jets." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_l_runP4-Q
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by hudibras 9y ago
When I was in the Navy, I participated in similar exercises. Operating in a GPS-denied environment is only one objective we trained on. Identifying that you were being jammed was also key. GPS jamming looks just like the "Huh, we'
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by hudibras 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNTSoKg6xHM
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by hudibras 9y ago
Every article doesn't have to mention every thing.
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'You Can't See the Join!' – Recovering Morecambe and Wise(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by hudibras 9y ago|1 comments
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by hudibras 9y ago
Built-in bread slicer is the holy grail of bread machines.
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by hudibras 9y ago
Maybe the author could have put something like this in the article: "Technology is a lead actor in this drama, but of course, privilege and power influence how the narrative plays out. Some people are given more learning opportunities
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by hudibras 9y ago
Access to a market with 120 million people.
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by hudibras 9y ago
As an aside, I love how the one picture of the new construction just randomly includes a guy zooming by in the foreground on a cargo bicycle, as if the photographer didn't sit there for a while waiting for one to go by so he could snap
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by hudibras 9y ago
Japanese verbs are at the end of the sentence, too.
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by hudibras 9y ago
When I worked in the Pentagon, everybody in our office had these to switch between the classified and unclassified computer systems. It was amusing when someone in our large cubicle farm would say, "Hey, check out this email that just
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The Great Baby Bust of 2017: Fertility Is Falling Faster Than You Realize(medium.com)
5 points by hudibras 9y ago|4 comments
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by hudibras 9y ago
I picked the book up for a dollar at a used bookstore, not expecting much. I then proceeded to tear through it in less than a day. It's a phenomenal story. The book includes everything in the movie, of course, plus a lot of fine detail
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by hudibras 9y ago
No, no, no, you don't understand. Although our doctor's salaries are much higher than other countries, it's okay because our drug costs, medical supply costs, ambulance costs, hospital administration costs, and insurance comp
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by hudibras 9y ago
Among economists, Dean Baker is literally Big Pharma's worst enemy. If somebody didn't like this article about doctors, just wait until they read his proposals for the pharmaceutical industry.

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